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Sprint domination

Douglas, East storm to Class 1 and 2 100m glory

March 26 12:20 AM

Sprint domination

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Champs 100 years ago

March 26 12:18 AM

Champs 100 years ago

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IMC impacting future

Alpha students leverage 2026 conference exposure for industry insight

March 26 12:16 AM

IMC impacting future

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More than just teachers

Award-winning educators highlight nation-building inside the classroom

Jerome Williams | Reporter

March 26 12:14 AM

More than just teachers

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REID RULES!

March 26 12:12 AM

JC surge into Boys’ Champs lead

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Blue Latte Rio by Léo Moço

March 26 12:10 AM

Countdown to the 27th staging of the Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards

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Last lifeline

Blake says Reggae Boyz ‘know what’s at stake’ in crucial World Cup play-off vs New Caledonia

Daniel Blake | Sports Writer | blaked@jamaicaobserver.com

March 26 12:06 AM

Last lifeline

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Jamaicans urged to step up in tree recovery effort

Holness calls for national volunteer push

Horace Hines | Observer Writer

March 26 12:04 AM

Jamaicans urged to step up in tree recovery effort

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Stop it now!

BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior reporter williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com

May 12, 2007

THE Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) and the Pharmaceutical Society have cautioned arthritis sufferers against the use of WD-40 - the penetrating ...

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NEPA educates public on air quality regulations

BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior reporter williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com

May 12, 2007

WITH the passing of new air quality regulations into law last year, the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has spent the last several mon...

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‘Thank you, teachers’

BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com

May 12, 2007

TWENTY-FIVE of Jamaica's educators received the ultimate Teacher's Day gift last Wednesday night, when they were honoured with the Prime Minister's Me...

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‘Don’t ignore their mental state!’

BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer Senior Reporterwilliamsp@jamaicaobserver.com

May 12, 2007

DOCTORS have urged the training of teachers in psychology to help them identify children with mental and emotional problems, in order to help safeguar...

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Reese unable to confirm Pratt being released on parole

BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer staff reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com

May 12, 2007

Commissioner of Corrections Major Richard Reese yesterday said he was unable to confirm that convicted murderers Earl Pratt and Mary Lynch would be re...

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Summer employment notes

May 12, 2007

AT the end of each academic year, thousands of Jamaica's young people go on the hunt for summer employment. Educational institutions, as well as priva...

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Yard style at Moyo’s

BY KERRY-KAY MCCATTY Observer staff writer

May 12, 2007

Cape Town, South Africa - Oxtail. Done just the way you know it should be - virtually sliding off the bones, in a rich, brownish sauce and with butter...

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Senate postpones appropriations bill debate

Balford Henry | Observer Writer

May 12, 2007

THE Senate has delayed the debate on the appropriations bill (the budget) for a week, but no reason was given for the postponement by the leader of Go...

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A sneak peek at history in the making…

BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter mccattyk@jamaicaobserver.com

May 12, 2007

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Eight thirty Friday morning, and the suburb of Houghton, with its quiet and absence of traffic, bears a contrast to the c...

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‘We are human beings too’

BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior reporter williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com

May 12, 2007

Respect from their fellow Jamaicans emerged as the overriding concern among 23 hearing-impaired students who yesterday competed in the annual Communic...

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Stellenbosch’s Rastas say they ‘puff’ ganja

Kerry McCatty

May 12, 2007

STELLENBOSCH, South Africa - Stellenbosch is probably the last place one would expect to see a chanting Rasta man draped in red, green and gold, oblig...

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Senate passes motion to rescue banana industry

BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Sunday Observer staff reporter

May 12, 2007

THE Senate last Friday passed a motion which had been tabled by the Opposition's spokesman on agriculture, Senator Anthony Johnson, seeking to reverse...

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Scotia donates million dollar equipment to Dumfries Primary

Horace Hines | Observer Writer

May 12, 2007

DUMFRIES, St James - Teachers and students at Dumfries Primary School were sporting broad smiles last Wednesday, after the school received nearly $1mi...

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Ethel Pengel will not be scorned

by Ingrid Brown Sunday Observer staff reporter browni@jamaicaobserver.com

May 12, 2007

IT took 24 years of living with the HIV virus for 54-year-old Surinamese national Ethel Pengel to speak freely about the disease which changed her lif...

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Deadly Grants Pen fire

BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer virtuee@jamaicaobserver.com

May 12, 2007

WHEN Jerome Kelly responded to nature's urgent call on Friday night in the gully outside his home at 7A Shortwood Road, Grants Pen, little did he know...

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Watch those schedules, parents!

BY PETRE WILLIAMS Sunday Observer senior reporter williamsp@jamaicaobserver.com

May 12, 2007

JAMAICAN children are increasingly finding themselves with schedules stacked with not only academic classes, but a variety of extra-curricular activit...

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Future Olympians in training

BY KIMONE THOMPSON Sunday Observer staff reporter thompsonk@jamaicaobserver.com

May 12, 2007

IN the world of amateur sports, it is said that competing is far more noble and more beneficial to the individual than is winning. Some may not agree,...

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An emotional visit to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg

BY KERRY MCCATTY Sunday Observer staff reporter mccattyk@jamaicaobserver.com

May 12, 2007

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - I saw her through the semi-tinted panel. She was wearing a pink blouse and blue jeans. She was standing in front of one o...

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Are you stressing your kids ?

BY DONNA HUSSEY-WHYTE Sunday Observer staff reporter whyted@jamaicaobserver.com

May 12, 2007

FOR Marjorie Powis, getting her nine-year-old son, Leon-St John Thompson, involved in extra-curricular activities is one sure way of keeping him out o...

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128-y-o Manchester woman laid to rest

GLENDON BAKER, Freelance writer

May 11, 2007

MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Mary Ewen (Granny Mary), who up to the time of her death was said to be the oldest living person in the hemisphere, was recen...

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NAJ in militant mood over non-payment of special allowance

May 11, 2007

JAMAICAN nurses' are today marking International Nurses' Day in a militant mood, as they battle with the government over the payment of an outstanding...